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Epic Panel Ordering

meetinghouse

I want to put the Epics in the Epic panel in a particular order. I have tried everything I have found along with what was suggested by my company's Jira Admins. None of the suggestions "hold". The order that Jira decides does not seem to have any discernable pattern that I can tell. It's not numeric, alphabetic or priority that I can tell.

Biggest problem is that I also cannot get all Epics that are in Closed status to stop appearing. I have many closed that don't appear, but several Closed that I cannot get to go away.

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Paul O_qqk8km

The order of EPICs in the panel is their rank order and by dragging one EPIC above the other in the panel you change the EPIC rank. You can test this by using the advanced search feature and running the JQL

project = <your_project> and issuetype = epic order by Rank

the query will display the results in the order of the panel. Drag an EPIC above another in the panel and re-run the query and you'll see the result reflect the change in the panel

To remove closed epics from the panel, click the arrow button on the right of the EPIC and choose to mark as done as shown in the screenshot below.

Screenshot 2021-03-13 at 11.44.01.png

meetinghouse

I've tried the drag an drop ordering before and it never 'holds'. Every time I come back it's reverted to some order that makes no sense to me.

UPDATE 3/17/21: I tried this again today. I dragged and dropped all of my Epics in the order in which I wanted them. In this case, that was alphabetically. Then, I closed the Epic Panel, refreshed the page, reopened the Epic Panel, and they're back in some wonky random order.

What workflow status does the Epic have to be in in order to mark it done. I have the ones I've trying to remove from the Panel in "Closed", and when I click on "Mark as Done" I first get

"...will be marked as Done. It will no longer be displayed in the Epics panel of the Backlog, but can be viewed in the Epic Report.'

When I then click on "Confirm", I get an error that says "This issue cannot be edited because of its workflow status."

UPDATE 3/17/21: I think I've confirmed that the Epic cannot be in the Closed status to mark as done. I went into the closed Epics, changed their workflow status to Resolved as Complete. Only then while is was still in the Resolved status, was I able to mark them as done. I have not tried to close them again.

Paul O_qqk8km

For the ordering issue, please check the following:

Go to board settings and check your filter query has RANK enabled. You won't be able to drag to change rank if not enabled.

e.g. The following will not allow you to re-order epics

Screenshot 2021-03-18 at 09.23.35.png

by using the 'Add Rank' button you will amend the filter query to include the ORDER BY RANK ASC and you should be OK to drag and drop

Screenshot 2021-03-18 at 09.23.47.png

For the 'marking EPICs' as done you are actually setting a value on a field called 'EPIC Status'. That field is independent of 'Status' as confusing as that sounds. The reason you can't edit this field is most likely because there is a condition to prevent edits to fields when the issue is in certain statuses. You can remove this condition by following the instructions at: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-do-i-edit-closed-issues-779160787.html

meetinghouse

The problem appears to be that I do not have ranking enabled. I did that to solve a different 'problem'. I need my Backlog view to display in priority order. Is there a way to do that without turning ranking off?

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